The sixth full-length album from progressive/avant-garde metal band EPHEL DUATH will be released in later this year via Agonia Records. Album title as well as album art have been set and will be revealed later this year.

The follow up to On Death and Cosmos (EP, 2012) will introduce a line-up change in the rhythmic section. All bass parts have already been recorded by Bryan Beller (MIKE KENEALLY, STEVE VAI, DETHKLOK, THE ARISTOCRATS, JAMES LA BRIE, DWEEZIL ZAPPA) in replacement of Steve Di Giorgio. Marco Minnemann returns playing drums for Ephel Duath bringing the creative relationship between drums and guitars to a dynamism never reached before by the band.

The album itself can easily be described as a new mountain-sized challenge in Ephel Duath's career, that Davide Tiso (founder/guitarist) - along with the support of vocalist Karyn Crisis - is taking step by step in order to reach the zenith.

A new message from Davide Tiso reads as follows:

"It looks like we will have to take a little more time to complete the new Ephel Duath album. We all agreed on detouching from the songs for few months before adding vocal doubles, guitar solos and starting the final mix. We are positive the album will benefit from this break: the whole thing is such a demanding piece of music and it needs to get all the attention possible to shine as it deserves. Yesterday Rutan sent some rough mixes and I was like a kid opening Christmas presents.

It's pretty remarkable how much better my life feels while I'm into these songs: it's going to be difficult to let them go and offer them to the public.

I'm almost going bankrupt these days, I spent every penny I had for this album, I gave it everything I had: emotionally, physically, economically and when you invest so much into something you get empty and lonely when the ride comes to an end and it's time to move on. Somehow, I'm pretty happy to stay with these songs a little longer.

During the past weeks I've been thinking a lot about how difficult has been to keep this band going this far. To keep Ephel Duath alive I had to sacrifice so much of my personal life, so much that my head spins thinking about that. Most of the people I met in my life outside the music probably think that I'm a selfish, unreliable and distant human being, but the truth is that since I was a teenager I knew which was my priority, and this, for better or for worse, has always been my band.

Nowadays, looking at the album sales, Ephel Duath keeps looking like a slow suicide for me, but it also represents one of the few tools I found to put a big smile on my face, and the only vehicle that keeps me going in this life and in this society that I seem to understand less and less the more I get old.

The new Ephel Duath album is coming when I'll be ready to let it go and you will have it for yourselves if you want to.

Ephel Duath fucking rules, long live to Ephel Duath!